Hatchet



(No Model.)

A. G.REX.

HATGHET.

Patemza Apr. 29, 1884;

UNITED. STATES PATENT l OFFICE.,

ALFRED O. REX, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HATQHET SPECIPICATION formiug part of Letters Patent No. 297,716, dated April 29, 1884-.

` Application filed February 1` 1884. (No model.)

and shown in the accompanying drawings,`

which form part thereof.

The object of my inventi'on is to construct a cheap hatchet for domestic purposes, Which shall have. all the qualities of the best steel hatchets.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a Sectional elevation of my improved hato'het, taken on line x x. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of same, taken on line y y,- and Fig. 3 is a crosssection of same, .taken on line z z.

A is the steel blade, which is provided with a dovetail piece or extension, B, With a hole or aperture, O, formed therein, and also a' slot or notch, D, upon one of its edges, for withdrawing nails., 'Ifhis blade is secured firmly to the body E by thelatter being cast solid upon the said blade, as shown. The

metal fiows around the dovetail B, through the aperture O, and around the edges and sides of the blade, as at e. By this means the said steel blade is firmly held,and could not possibly become loosened by use, and the gradual taper of the bodyto .the blade is such that it is not readily perceived Where the body ends and blade begins.

F is the hammer orhead of the body. and G is the usual aperture,through which the handle Iis passed and secured therein by'the expanding wedge I'. As in small hatchets of this class it is generally found that the blade-handles become loose, I provide knife edges or points H on the face of the hole G, about half-way through, so that the wedge I' is driven in the` wood of the handle, and is forced against the said proj ections, and they are burfed into it, as shown in Fig. 3, thereby preventing any possibility of the handle working loose.

, Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Ahmhet the body of which is madefof cast iron, and cast upon a steel blade formed With a dovetail extension, and an aperture through which the metal of the body flows, substantially as and for the purpose specified. In testimony of which inventiou I hereunto set my hand.

ALFRED' O. REX. Witnesses:

R. M. HUNTER, W. S. MOWADE. 

